RE: [Goanet]Goans in IAS

[Rui Collaco]

Mr. Nair, I think I know the difference between a federal set-up and a 
colonial administration. One of the main differences is that in a genuine 
federation (India being a mockery of the federal concept) there is 
central/federal recruitment only for federal jobs (like the armed forces, 
foreign service, federal justice and federal agencies), state jobs are 
filled by locally recruited staff. This is the case with the USA. In a 
colonial administration, by contrast, people are centrally recruited on a 
much wider scale and deputed to the colonies. Looking at Goa today, it has a 
situation more akin to the latter description, rather than that of a 
federate state in a true federation! Most of its top civil service jobs are 
in the hands of the "feds" and most of the other jobs in the hands of 
outsiders.

Rui Colla�o

Lisboa


From: "Radhakrishnan Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [Goanet]Goans in IAS
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:08:56 +0530
(Rui Collaco: So why is it OK for Goans to be bossed over mostly  by 
non-Goan officers? Just because they are brown-skinned, even though they 
may come from 2000 kms away? Do they know more about Goa than the handful 
of Portuguese officials and the thousands of Goans of all ranks
who were part of the colonial administration? I doubt very much.)

What's wrong with these Collaco/Colaco/Colaccos? They don't seem to know 
the basic difference between a federal set-up and a colonial 
administration. This Collaco is suggesting that the Portuguese 
administration was better because there were only a handful of Portuguese 
(white) officials and thousands of (black) Goans then, instead of the 
(brown) Indian bureaucracts who now "boss over" the poor, hapless Goenkars!

What if the Mumbaikers felt that way when Julio Ribeiro was the Police 
Commissioner of Bombay? Or when Eduardo Faleiro was a federal Minister?

Someone should tell this Collaco that the "thousands of Goans" who were 
part of the Portuguese administration were basically helping that regime to 
plunder the wealth of India.

As for the absence of Goans in the Civil Services, I recall an incident in 
the eighties when the AIR, Panjim, invited applications for the post of 
Transmission Executives. Nearly 500 candidates appeared for a written test 
but not one of them cleared the test!

Let the Goan youth equip themselves for competitive exams, and it's my firm 
belief that not one of them will be rejected on the ground that they are 
Goan. On the other hand, it's just impossible to recruit anyone to the 
Civil Services merely because he/she happens to be a Goan or Mallu or 
Kannadiga. India's reservation basket is already full and overflowing, but 
that's another issue.

Best wishes, RKN

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